What is a "blue collar"? What occupations are included?

Blue-collar refers to people whose main income is manual labor, and working-class people who require to wear uniforms at work.

Its occupations include industrial and mining workers, agricultural workers, construction workers, dockers and warehouse managers.

Blue-collar workers are often compared with white-collar workers, and the lifestyle of blue-collar workers is obviously not desk work. At present, many skilled workers are called blue-collar workers. Blue-collar workers have always been a shortage of talents in many domestic enterprises.

Extended data:

New blue-collar workers refer to grassroots workers who work and live in second-tier (or above) cities and contribute to the daily operation of the city, including professional groups such as sales, real estate agents, security guards, beauty salons and couriers, and also cover some grassroots white-collar workers. The "new blue collar" crowd does not include traditional factory workers and construction workers.

In the factory workshop, the graduates of technical colleges are not "blue-collar" in the traditional sense, but "new blue-collar". The professional setting of technical schools and higher vocational colleges is employment-oriented and ability-oriented, which directly meets the market demand. Graduates can be independent when they enter the enterprise, and of course they are talents in the eyes of enterprises. The popularity of "new blue collar" also tells us that people's understanding of talents is going to be fundamental.

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